Human Connections: Social Matrix Algebra
We don’t readily understand the complex ways we are all tied together; social matrix algebra, a matrix algebra practical application, can help.
Politics
The Political Animal
How to Fix Congress
Before we can fix government, we need to fix Congress. The problem in Congress is minority rule, but the privacy of the ballot box could restore political moderation.
Dead, Dead, Dead: The Thanatocracy
Constitutional fundamentalists, like other fundamentalists, yield thought and free will in worship and submission to the dead authority of the thanatocracy, a system that is dead, dead, dead.
Ridiculing Neo-Nazis
Ridiculing neo-Nazis and other extremists is a powerful tool, but one that can also backfire badly. It is imperative that we offer carrots with the sticks.
Racism: Charlottesville
Racism is as old as humanity. But the word, and the concept, are quite recent.
Demagogues vs the Democracy
To understand who we are today, we need to understand kings, conquerors, and their dysfunctions, and what life looked like in their kingdoms. It wasn’t pretty.
The 6 Branches of Government
There are six Branches of Government, not three: the 6th Branch is really the first, ‘We the People.’ To protect the democracy, we must assert our rights.
Alienable Rights
Guarantees are human constructs, not divine. If we do not provide and protect our beliefs, they are simply alienable rights.
Gender Equity & Pointless Ambition
Too often, gender equity pursues a masculine success of domination and pointless ambition, ironically making ‘equal rights’ offensively anti-egalitarian.
Human Prosperity
Human prosperity has increased dramatically in the past 100 years. But we tend to focus on the glitzy technology, and overlook the big reasons for it.